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panetta. >>> it's 8:00 a.m. welcome to cbs "this morning." david petraeus is on capitol hill. we'll ask an white house adviser what he can say about benghazi and if the military has a larger problem with ethics. maker of twingeies and wonder bread lance to turn off its 0 convenience for good. first here's what's been happening in the world and what we've been covering on cbs "this morning." >> camera crews at virtually every entrance of the capitol trying to get a glimpse of david petraeus. >> petraeus meeting with members of congress this morning. >> he's agreed to answer questions that killed the ambassador in benghazi. >> troops arrived here to tell us and every broad caster that we have to leave. >> the real danger is that it could lead to a wider outbreak. >> a parade float was hit by a train in maryland left-hand, texas. >> growing injury controversy that's threatening football's future all the way to the nfl. >> we have to enforce our rules and make sure when we see violations of o rules we're enforcing them properly and i'm not going to in any weigh compromise on that.
panetta. >>> it's 8:00 a.m. welcome to cbs "this morning." david petraeus is on capitol hill. we'll ask an white house adviser what he can say about benghazi and if the military has a larger problem with ethics. maker of twingeies and wonder bread lance to turn off its 0 convenience for good. first here's what's been happening in the world and what we've been covering on cbs "this morning." >> camera crews at virtually every entrance of the capitol trying to...
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the head of nato is backing allen and leon panetta also offered some guarded support. >> no one should leap to any conclusions here. general allen is doing an excellent job in leading those fors. he has my continued confidence to lead our forces and to continue the fight but his nomination has been put on hold as a prudent measure until we determine what the facts are. >> reporter: that caution was echoed at the white house. >> he has faith in general allen, believes he's doing and is doing an excellent job. >> reporter: james incarnate engineer was peppered with questions. >> he's not going to make a grand pronouncement or decisions about things based on, you know, two situations, two individual cases. >> reporter: among the hundreds of emails exchanged between general all lean kelly investigators are focusing on one from several months ago. in it allen told kelly he just received an anonymous e-mail which warned him to stay away from kelly. that e-mail came from paula broadwell. broadwell who had been out of sight since the scandal broke friday was spotted tuesday night preparing din
the head of nato is backing allen and leon panetta also offered some guarded support. >> no one should leap to any conclusions here. general allen is doing an excellent job in leading those fors. he has my continued confidence to lead our forces and to continue the fight but his nomination has been put on hold as a prudent measure until we determine what the facts are. >> reporter: that caution was echoed at the white house. >> he has faith in general allen, believes he's...
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however, the pentagon -- panetta's spokesperson says this involves 20,000 to 30,000 documents. that's a lot of documents sent between jill kelley, a civilian woman, and a tom general in afghanistan. doesn't that raise red flags? >> there is from 2010 to 2012. this covers a couple years. they're not documents the way we consider documents. these are e-mails going back and forth. if you see the way people blackberry with their iphones and text back and forth, it's still a lot, but i think what they did is -- >> do civilian house wives in florida have communications like that with top generals in afghanistan? >> i think jill kelley isn't your average civilian housewife in florida. we'll get into this more later. but she is a major figure around the central command base in mcdill air force base. >> and well-known in washington as well. >> that, too. you see that she's going to visit petraeus in washington at the cia and petraeus is telling this to broadwell, and broadwell and he have just broken off. so you can watch the wheels turning there, she's thinking did he throw me over for
however, the pentagon -- panetta's spokesperson says this involves 20,000 to 30,000 documents. that's a lot of documents sent between jill kelley, a civilian woman, and a tom general in afghanistan. doesn't that raise red flags? >> there is from 2010 to 2012. this covers a couple years. they're not documents the way we consider documents. these are e-mails going back and forth. if you see the way people blackberry with their iphones and text back and forth, it's still a lot, but i think...
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and just this morning while on a trip in thailand defense secretary leon panetta said he doesn't see the scandal widening. >> i'm not aware of any others that could be involved in this issue at the present time. >> reporter: on capitol hill wednesday fbi director robert mueller briefed congressional intelligence leaders saying the fbi did find that broadwell who had been researching a book on petraeus may have mishandled classified information. also on wednesday the army suspended broadwell security clearances and the air force base rejected kelley's access to the base. officials have said emails between kelley and allen contain nothing of a sexual nature but could be embarrassing. allen has denied any wrongdoing and has not spoken publicly but his attorney did release a statement on his behalf saying he was fully cooperating with the investigations and to the kent there's certain questions on communication with general allen he plans to resolve those questions as quickly as possible. in an interview with charlie rose in washington on wednesday night the head of u.s. special operatio
and just this morning while on a trip in thailand defense secretary leon panetta said he doesn't see the scandal widening. >> i'm not aware of any others that could be involved in this issue at the present time. >> reporter: on capitol hill wednesday fbi director robert mueller briefed congressional intelligence leaders saying the fbi did find that broadwell who had been researching a book on petraeus may have mishandled classified information. also on wednesday the army suspended...
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i do think, knowing secretary panetta, i think they'll wait till they get all the facts in and decide whether or not the chain of command, the president, secretary of defense has the confidence in him to put him in a very important position in europe. >> general myers, thank you very much. john miller, cbs correspondent, is with us now, he is a former assistant fbi director. do they have new evidence on sensitive material found inside broadwell's home? are they expanding their focus? >> i think the washington post is expanding their focus. this has become a little headline driven. what you see the fbi is doing is what you would do at the end of any investigation, but especially a high-profile investigation, which is they're tidying up the loose ends. okay, classified documents were found in her computer that they were examining in the original part of this case and they weren't from petraeus. but then there's a question of were there other computers? yes, there's another two computers in my home. what about paper documents that were researched for the book? they want to take all that
i do think, knowing secretary panetta, i think they'll wait till they get all the facts in and decide whether or not the chain of command, the president, secretary of defense has the confidence in him to put him in a very important position in europe. >> general myers, thank you very much. john miller, cbs correspondent, is with us now, he is a former assistant fbi director. do they have new evidence on sensitive material found inside broadwell's home? are they expanding their focus?...
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allen.n panetta says he has jobendous confidence in john allen, remains at the top u.s. commander in afghanistan and clarissa ward is in kabul, and an has been talking to the troops about the scandal. the militr: the military here keeping veran is keeping very tight lipped about this. visit in a request to visit one of the bases here and speak with of the tre troops and we were told that that would not be sossible and that the soldiers commead no public comment on such matters, that they remain focused on their mission. s were able to speak to some hoficers who asked to remain anonymous. and their reactions to this to this sre really quite mixed. there were some who said that this does not affect the mission here in afghanistan, that it has that no bearings whatsoever on their day-to-day operations. met one major wrote this to me. quote, we're taught to live the rmy values and assure our soldiers, down to the lowest private, lives them as well. when one of the most senior-ranking well-known generals of our generation can't gh that, it makes it kind of hengh to make a pri
allen.n panetta says he has jobendous confidence in john allen, remains at the top u.s. commander in afghanistan and clarissa ward is in kabul, and an has been talking to the troops about the scandal. the militr: the military here keeping veran is keeping very tight lipped about this. visit in a request to visit one of the bases here and speak with of the tre troops and we were told that that would not be sossible and that the soldiers commead no public comment on such matters, that they remain...
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did they offer additional security at the compound. >> we know now defense secretary leon panetta has ordered an ethics review of many of those top serving officials. you were the highest ranking woman at the defense department. is this needed? >> absolutely. leon panetta is a stickler about ethics and a stickler about accountability and he's doing the right thing. >> is there a cultural problem at the defense department tor military? >> don't think it's widespread or in general but this is an opportunity for everybody to take a minute, step back, look at the question of are we affecting ethics in the officer corps. are we doing enough with training and mentoring. he's asked each of the services to review what exactly they do on these issues and report back and see if there's any way to strengthen the system. >> at the center of this thing is paula broadwell, a west point graduate. she was an army reservist. had done a lot of intelligence. yet she took six trips to afghanistan as a reservist in trying to write this biography and also flew out of afghanistan with general petraeus on hi
did they offer additional security at the compound. >> we know now defense secretary leon panetta has ordered an ethics review of many of those top serving officials. you were the highest ranking woman at the defense department. is this needed? >> absolutely. leon panetta is a stickler about ethics and a stickler about accountability and he's doing the right thing. >> is there a cultural problem at the defense department tor military? >> don't think it's widespread or in...
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and defense secretary panetta was informed shortly after it started. he gave a verbal order to send in military personnel sometime between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. but they did not arrive in libya until 3:00 p.m. the next day. >> margaret what military assets were mobilized? >> reporter: there were about three units mobilized and deployed a special operations force from central up. two anti-terrorism security teams were sent from spain. and a delta force unit was sent from fort bragg, north carolina. here's the controversial part. while the president ordered that all available pentagon assets respond defense secretary panetta said that gun ships were fixed wing fighters quote were not in the vicinity of libya, nor postured to be an effective operational option during the time frame of the take. now the pentagon has come under fire from senator john mccain and other republican senators who say military assets should have been on alert given it was september 11th they should have been within striking distance. >> it almost sounds like this opens up as many que
and defense secretary panetta was informed shortly after it started. he gave a verbal order to send in military personnel sometime between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. but they did not arrive in libya until 3:00 p.m. the next day. >> margaret what military assets were mobilized? >> reporter: there were about three units mobilized and deployed a special operations force from central up. two anti-terrorism security teams were sent from spain. and a delta force unit was sent from fort bragg,...